“Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.”
― The Character of Physical Law
― The Character of Physical Law
“Sometimes the simplest and most obvious distinctions give rise to the profoundest intellectual difficulties, and things most commonplace in our daily experience drive home to us the depths of our ignorance”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“How could this fatuous, emotional thing be without beginning and without end, the creator of all? I had taken the dead letter of Scripture at its very deadest, and it had killed me, according to the saying of St. Paul: "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”
― The Seven Storey Mountain
― The Seven Storey Mountain
“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.”
― God is Love: Deus Caritas Est
― God is Love: Deus Caritas Est
“There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I may, it is true, twist orthodoxy so as partly to justify a tyrant. But I can easily make up a German philosophy to justify him entirely.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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